Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)

Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto was sometimes called the “Father of Modernism” in the Nordic countries. He studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, and two years later in 1923 he opened his first architectural office. The following year he married fellow architect Aino Marsio, and it was their honeymoon journey to Italy that led to an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that remained important to Aalto for the rest of his life. Aalto’s wide field of activity ranged from furniture and glassware designs to architecture and painting. His vase designs are world famous. He invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932. Alvar Aalto’s career spans changes in style from pre-modernism to purist International Style Modernism to a more synthetic and idiosyncratic approach.

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